Donald Trump keeps claiming club championships, and he reportedly keeps hitting new milestones for taxpayer money spent out on the links.
According to the website, DidTrumpGolfToday.com, the president spent Saturday and Sunday golfing. The tracker reported that means the president has spent 51 of his first 206 days — 24.8% of his second term — on the course.
But that’s not the eye-catching number.
The president’s weekend excursion now pushes his estimated golf tab for taxpayers this term to $71,400,000.
The government’s own 2019 report on the cost of the president’s golf outings is used to estimate the cost.
The current total does not include the $600,000 recently revealed that the Secret Service is spending on golf carts and portable toilets for Bedminster. The Independent reported that the agency “signed a pair of definitive contracts with Associate Golf Car Service of Poughkeepsie, New York and Restroom Resources LLC of Wrightstown, New Jersey,” per federal records.
The portable toilets may be a wise investment considering the health department recently deemed eating at the course an “unacceptable risk.”
The Secret Service will reportedly shell out $80,385 for those with the contract running through May 31, 2026. The Independent said there is a “three-year renewal option, for a potential of $333,801.” The site reported that the golf cart rental runs through June 2, 2026, and is “worth a potential of $550,930.”
“The U.S. Secret Service has contracts in place for portable restrooms and golf cart rentals to support the protective operations in Bedminster, New Jersey,” the Secret Service told The Independent. “The golf carts are used by personnel in club facilities; however, additional restrooms are needed to support the number of personnel onsite. These rentals also allow for restroom access in additional locations on club property and when club facilities are closed such as after business hours.”
You can read more about the deal at The Independent, here.
And, yes, while Trump mostly golfs at his properties, the American taxpayer reportedly still foots the bill for the costs for him to play there.
Trump spent an estimated $151.5 million golfing across his first term so he is well on his way to blowing that total out of the water during this second term.
Those are big numbers. Lot of millions spent hitting a little white ball. Which brings the obvious question of just how much it costs for the president to play a round of golf?
Well, for those concerned about how much it costs for the president to play, the figures are from a 2019 Government Accountability Office report that examined Trump’s first four trips to Mar-a-Lago during his first administration. You can see the report, here. It calculated that each of those trips cost $3,383,250, and that was based on 2017 dollars meaning that the actual cost today is likely higher than the estimate.
The costs involved with him golfing in Florida include flying in on Air Force One. Also, per the site, the military flies the vehicles for his motorcade in on C-17s each time he makes the trip. Also, because Mar-a-Lago, where Trump stays while he plays at his courses, is on the water, police boats with machine guns and a Coast Guard vessel have to be called in to patrol. The site said additional costs included law enforcement and bomb sniffing dogs.
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